i'm anna werner. the revolving door continues to spin at the white house. the latest top administration official to find himself on the outside national security adviser john bolton. bolton says he quit. president trump says he was fired. either way, the president will be shopping for his fourth national security adviser in 20 months. who's on the short list? weijia jiang rounds up the usual suspects. >> reporter: our cameras spotted john bolton outside the west wing this morning just hours before the president revealed that he had told him his services are no longer needed at the white house. but the ousted national security adviser disputed that, saying he offered to leave. his resignation letter delivered to the president this morning. >> we're going to announce sanctions -- >> reporter: notoriously hawkish, bolton took a hardline approach to foreign policy that clashed with the president's. most recently, he opposed the widely criticized plan to meet with taliban leaders at camp david. bolton was also against mr. trump's embrace of north korean dictator

our consumer investigative correspondent anna werner brings us one man's story. >> there was no other a year since crippling back pain sent frank esposito to the doctor. >> he looked at the m.r.i. and he said, "you need to go to the closest hospital immediately." >> reporter: this 59-year-old tool and die maker from long island says he could barely move. >> it wasn't an elective thing. >> reporter: it was that obvious? >> it was that obvious. >> reporter: you couldn't even walk. doctors told esposito he needed immediate surgery. that a herniated disc in his spinal column threatened to leave him permanently paralyzed. >> the pain was bad. i never thought it would end. >> reporter: but the surgery was just the beginning of esposito's nightmare. he has private insurance, so you might think, as he did, that he was covered for this kind of emergency, but just weeks into his seven month recovery, the bills started pouring in. this says the amount you owe is -- >> $256,000. it's mind-boggling. that's only one doctor. >> reporter: esposito was on the hook for over $650,000 in bills, including

anna werner joins us with medical price roulette. >> i got up to go to the bathroom and just collapsed. >> reporter: you passed out? >> i passed out. >> reporter: miriam harper, a mother of four, had complications after a miscarriage at 12 weeks. >> just started bleeding more and more, to the point where it was really concerning. >> reporter: harper was rushed to the hospital, her third trip to a dallas area medical facility in two days. >> they charged me for blood typing. >> reporter: not long after, as she grieved, the bills started coming. >> i think it's a reminder of just emptiness, and then other bills keep pouring in and this lab and that lab. >> reporter: what was surprising about those bills, the amount she was charged for the same tests, a pair of ultrasounds at two different facilities. $150 at her birthing center, but more than $1500 at this hospital. are you surprised by that? >> shocked. there is no kind of accountability whatsoever. it's just all over the place. >> reporter: something we discovered when our partner, clear health costs, surveyed cash price, used here as

from the cbs roadcast center in w york city, i'm anna werner. >>> it's wednesday, september 11th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." victory for the gop. republicans win a special election in north carolina, but there could still be a silver lining for democrats. >>> president trump's national security adviser, john bolton, is out. we'll reveal the many disagreements between the two men, including over the departure. >>> and football star antonio brown accused of rape. what his former trainer says happened and how brown is responding. ♪ >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with a big victory for president trump and the gop. last night republican dan bishop narrowly defeated democrat dan mccreedy in a special election in north carolina's ninth congressional district. the house race was seen as a referendum on president trump who easily won the district in 2016. laura podesta is here in new york. why was this so important for republicans? >> reporter: anne-marie, dan bishop's victory is a

also the place that mexican rebel leader pancho villa attack us soldiers and civilians reporter anna werner key has more. >>it's been more than 100 years since poncho via invaded the small town of columbus new mexico, one of the few times the u s has ever been invaded, but local businesses say that that'll bus. actually what drives nearly all of the tourism here. 9 in new mexico is the small border town of columbus. >>and one of the first pieces to greet you on follow gonzalez has lived in columbus for 30 years, she's the owner operator and head chef. columb >>18 americans were killed in the raid. >>but now over 100 years us as people on both sides of the border consider him a hero because he is the only one that. united states and just down the street at the los milagros hotel pictures of poncho via covered the wall no one knows for sure why he rated there's about 5 or 6 theories out there to look skinner owns the hotel. he says once a year columbus celebrates the battle of columbus with their neighbors across the border alone most has a party for them. the dinner and. >>then those writers

tonight in our series "your money, your health," anna werner takes an in-depth look at the sky-high costs"medical price roulette." >> there was no other way to go. >> reporter: it's been a year since crippling back pain sent frank esposito to the doctor. >> he looked at the m.r.i. and he said, "you need to go to the closest hospital immediately." >> reporter: this 59-year-old tool and die maker from long island says he could barely move. >> it wasn't an elective thing. >> reporter: it was that obvious? >> it was that obvious. >> reporter: you couldn't even walk. doctors told esposito he needed immediate surgery. that a herniated disc in his spinal column threatened to leave him permanently paralyzed. >> the pain was bad. i never thought it would end. >> reporter: but the surgery was just the beginning of esposito's nightmare. he has private insurance, so you might think, as he did, that he was covered for this kind of emergency, but just weeks into his seven month recovery, the bills started pouring in. this says the amount you owe is -- >> $256,000. it's mind-boggling. that's only one do

anna werner joins us, with "medical price roulette." >> i got up to go to the bathroom, and just collapsed reporter: you passed out. >> i passed out. >> reporter: miriam harper, a mother of four, had complications after a miscarriage at 12 weeks. >> just started bleeding more and more, and to the point where it was really concerning. >> reporter: harper was rushed to the hospital, her third trip to a dallas-area medical facility in two days. >> they charged me for blood typing. >> reporter: not long after, as she grieved, the bills started coming. >> i think it's a reminder of just emptiness, and then the other bills just keep pouring in, and this lab and that lab. >> reporter: what was surprising about those bills? the amount she was charged for the same tests, a pair of ultrasounds, at two different facilities: $150 at her birthing center, but more than $1,500 at this hospital. are you surprised by that? >> shocked. there's no kind of accountability whatsoever. it's just all over the place. >> reporter: something we discovered, when our partner "clear health costs" surveyed cash prices,

anna werner has the story. >> wherever we tested, we found mislabeled seafood. >> reporter: beth lowellocean jana has been working to stop it for a decade. >> instead they're getting the cheaper alternative when they're getting ripped off. >> reporter: the group collected 449 samples from restaurant, small markets and grocery stores in 24 states and d.c., and found one out of five samples were mislabeled. one in every three businesses visited sold at least one item that was not labeledrrectly. the bi offendersss, with 42% an of the samples found to be fraudulent. >> well, the problem is seafood fraud can happen any time in the supply chain where one fish is swapped out for another. it could be because somebody wants to sell a cheaper fish at a higher price or they're trying to fill all the order for salmon, and there is not enough salmon, they may swap something else out. >> reporter: not only can that fraud cheat consumers, but oceana finds those who have been overfished mislabeled. some restaurants are focused on using only local sustainable fish. miyanoki is a small city in new york

this morning anna werner reports on how insurance companies and providers work to keep prices secret.t old, but at least i should have some say on what i want being done to me. >> reporter: that was morgan gleason five years ago, already speaking out about health care. >> i am the patient, and i need to be heard. >> these are all my morning pills. >> reporter: now 21, she has learned a lot about the system through her own journey. gleason suffers from a disease which causes severe muscle weakness. treatment requires expensive infusion therapy once a month in a hospital. if you couldn't get those, what would that mean for you? >> i mean, not to sound morbid or anything, but i could die. >> reporter: but as a budding health activist, it was the payments for those monthly infusions that caught her attention. >> it was mind blowing to me. it was just shocking. >> reporter: shocking, because she discovered insurance companies paid different amounts for the same procedure. gleason is covered under her parents' insurance, which over a year changed three times. for each infusion, the hospital

our consumer investigative correspondent, anna werner, shows the fallout. >> it hurts.g we were prepared for. >> reporter: tanya willis says her rescue shelter is near at a standstill after her payroll company abruptly shut down. >> all of their phone lines were down and social media accounts were wiped off. >> reporter: last some of willis' employees frantically called after finding recently deposited paychecks vanished from their accounts. >> between all of the employees, there was over a million 13,000 dollars deducted between eight checking accounts. >> reporter: the a.p. says willis is one of about 5,000 business owners scrambeling to pay workers after a business partner to my payroll h.r. said they diverted an estimated $35 million from employee accounts. some accounts had multiple withdrawals leaving many employees with negative balances. willis says one of her employees' accounts was overdrafted nearly $1 million. >> she had less than $1,000 in that account. we want to know so how that possible. >> reporter: my payroll h.r. and michael mann did not return calls

anna werner is on the case. anna, are there any leads?lice are looking for, michelle. authorities believe a man lured this little girl into a van and drove off. they are combing through surveillance videos for any clues while the family is desperately pleading for anyone with information to come forward. >> just want to find her. i want to find that she's okay, nothing bad's happened. >> reporter: noema perez is desperate to have her daughter, dulce, home safe after the 5-year-old vanished from a park monday just feet from where her mother was. >> we are attempting to identify a male who was in the park. >> reporter: police believe a man they described as light skinned, possibly hispanic, and wearing orange shoes lured the little girl to a red van. more than 50 local, state, and federal investigators are using helicopters, dive teams, and k-9 k-9s in the search. these are surveillance images of dulce wearing a yellow shirt and black and white pants at a store the day before she went missing. her grandmother speaking through a translator,

reporter anna werner key shows us what the border fence looks like there. >>we put into our google maps where the construction for the wall started but wound to the left off the main road. we hit a road closed sign if you can see right here. it says it closed on august 22th for border infrastructure construction activities. for acres in organ pipe cactus national park there's nothing but kept dying. >>but as you drive closer to the the port of entry the road signs turned into caution signs. >>warning visitors of smuggling and illegal immigration and then right before you can feed them. instruction for the border wall actually begins right behind me essentially it's going to be an extension of what we're seeing right now the world about to get this close to make room for the construction vehicles. but the construction doesn't bother the few locals who live in the area most of the people's concern about the wall. of nature hector molina said he frequently crosses the loop, port of entry because it's easy there's not a lot of people who live nearby it is the c

today investigative consumer correspondent anna werner focuses on how insurance companies and providersges a secret. anna, what did you find? >> right. we're going to talk about this through the lens of a young woman who learned the hard truths about the health care system when she was just a teenager. >> i am 15 years old. i know that's not that old, but i should have some say in what i want being done to me. >> reporter: that was morgan gleeson five years ago, already speaking out about health care. >> i am the patient, and i need to be heard. these are my morning pills -- >> reporter: now 21, she's learned a lot about the system through her own journey. gleason suffers from juvenile dramatomyacitis which causes muscle weakness. treatment requires infusion therapy once a month in a hospital. if you couldn't get those, what would that mean for you? >> i mean, not to sound morbid or anything, but i could die. >> reporter: as a budding health activist it was the payments for the monthly infusion that's caught her attention. >> it was mind blowing, shocking. >> reporter: shocking because